I have noticed there are closely spaced lines, like cross-hatching, running from SSW to NNE...ie more or less diagonally. They are faint but noticable; sometimes they run through a star and are very clear.

I think what you are discribing is your lack of informantion in that star system. If you don't have a ship with sensors or an allied ship in the system, you can not see the details of starports, mining stations, fleets, or troops that might be located there. Those thins lines through the planets tell you this.

I think what you are discribing is your lack of informantion in that star system. If you don't have a ship with sensors or an allied ship in the system, you can not see the details of starports, mining stations, fleets, or troops that might be located there. Those thins lines through the planets tell you this.

Yes....that could very well be it....I dont see those lines in my own systems.